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‘Let’s get on with it’: Overcoming roadblocks to achieve Australia’s energy storage ambitions

May 21, 2024
There is “no shortage of investor appetite” and policy support is in place, but there are still some barriers to energy storage deployment on the scale needed to decarbonise Australia’s energy sector.
The 290MW, 6-hour BESS is planned for construction in the area outlined in red, in proximity of existing substation infrastructure. Image: Statera.

UK developer Statera wins planning consent for 6-hour, 1.7GWh battery storage project

March 26, 2024
UK-based energy company Statera Energy has secured planning consent for a 290MW/1,740MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to be developed in Southwest England.
Rendering of Synergy's Kwinana BESS 2 project, on which construction began a few months ago. Image: Synergy.

Planning approval granted in Western Australia for state’s flagship 2GWh battery storage project

December 12, 2023
State government-owned energy company Synergy has received planning approval for its 500MW/2,000MWh Collie Battery Energy Storage System (CBESS) project in Western Australia.
Aerial overlay of where the project will be located on Milwaulkee's North 84th Street, from plans submitted by the developer. Image: Black Mountain Energy Storage.

Black Mountain Energy Storage gets approval for 300MW/1,400MWh Wisconsin BESS project

September 28, 2023
Black Mountain Energy Storage has won approval for a battery storage project which will be the biggest in the US state of Wisconsin so far.
Blind Creek will co-locate solar PV, battery storage and sheep farming, as seen in this image of an existing agrivoltaics project. Image: Rob Davis / Agrisolar Clearinghouse via Flickr.

Development consent for New South Wales agrivoltaics project with 300MW/600MWh BESS

August 1, 2023
A “farmer-led” utility-scale solar PV and battery storage agrivoltaics project in New South Wales, Australia, has been granted development consent.
Map showing the planned Hunter Central Coast REZ, where the larger of the two approved BESS projects will be sited. Image: NSW Government.

New South Wales gives planning approvals for 270MW of BESS in Renewable Energy Zones

July 19, 2023
New South Wales has granted planning approval for battery energy storage system projects in the Australian state’s Renewable Energy Zones.
Groundbreaking in March 2022 for th site's BESS, attended by local Member of Parliament Adam Marshall (centre). Image: Office of Adam Marshall.

New South Wales approves BESS capacity expansion at Australia’s largest hybrid solar farm

June 5, 2023
New South Wales has approved plans to increase maximum sizing of battery storage at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.
Yallourn power plant, scheduled for closured in 2028. Image: Wikimedia user Stephen Edmonds.

EnergyAustralia submits application for 1.4GWh BESS to replace Victoria coal plant

December 6, 2022
EnergyAustralia has filed planning applications for four-hour duration large-scale lithium BESS in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
New Zealand's first megawatt-scale Tesla BESS, inaugurated in 2016. Image: Vector Energy

New Zealand’s first 100MW grid-scale battery storage project gets approval

November 7, 2022
Development approvals have been granted for New Zealand’s biggest planned battery energy storage system (BESS) to date.
A rendering of an Eolian-Able Grid project in Texas, which Wartsila is providing BESS equipment to. Image: Wartsila.

Ohio Power Siting Board gives approval for state’s first grid-scale battery storage project  

November 2, 2022
Ohio Power Siting Board has given approval to a large-scale standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) project for the first time.

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